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Music podcast contains explicit language. Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for August 21, 2015, the Amabats and Amholes edition.

I'm Emily Bazelan of the New York Times Magazine. John and David are still gone.

I think they will be back next week. I pray, but it's okay because we have, for the second week

running, guest star Jamel Bowie in Washington, D.C., Jamel Bowie, of course, writer at Slate. Jamel,

how you doing? I'm doing pretty good.

You bailed me out.

When John bailed last night, I am extremely grateful.

My pleasure.

And here in New Haven with me is Jack Hitt, one of my very favorite magazine writers in the world.

Jack Hitt of This American Life.

How else should I be introducing you right now? We can stop there. We'll stop there. Jack hit of every other good magazine

you've ever read in your life. On a good week or month, he will be in there. Jack said,

thank you so much for joining us. Well, great to be here. So on this week's GabFest, our topics will be the Republican Party and immigration.

Has Donald Trump already cost the party, the Latino vote?

And we're going to talk about Bernie Sanders.

Is his rise sustainable?

And is he winning over Black Lives Matter?

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